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Worldmaking in early modern Europe : = Global imaginations from Montaigne to Milton.

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Title/Author:	Worldmaking in early modern Europe :/
Reminder of title:	Global imaginations from Montaigne to Milton.
Author:	Ramachandran, Ayesha.
Description:	1 online resource (436 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-06, Section: A, page: 2260.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-06A.
Subject:	Comparative literature. -
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ISBN:	9780549653196

Worldmaking in early modern Europe : = Global imaginations from Montaigne to Milton.
Ramachandran, Ayesha.

Worldmaking in early modern Europe :Global imaginations from Montaigne to Milton. - 1 online resource (436 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-06, Section: A, page: 2260.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references

This study tells two related stories about the place of fiction-making and global expansion in the late Renaissance: the disintegration and refashioning of the world as a coherent concept from about 1580 to 1670, and the developing epistemological importance of imaginary-world fictions to that process. The post-Columbian world of the sixteenth century was no longer the familiar, divinely ordered, humanly mapped terrain well-known to classical antiquity and the Middle Ages. By the 1580s, the culmination of several related movements---such as the pursuit of colonial and commercial exploration, the growing intellectual trends of skeptical thought, theological questioning, and astronomical speculation---exposed the inability of traditional explanatory systems to comprehend the world as a discrete unit. The world now demanded a new intellectual framework that would organize an amorphous global consciousness into a coherent form or system.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780549653196Subjects--Topical Terms:

835159
Comparative literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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520 $a My project examines four representative philosophical and poetic texts of the period---Montaigne's Essais, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Descartes' Le monde and Milton's Paradise Lost---as responses to this crisis of worldmaking. Each one takes the world as its key subject, and despite diversity, all are united by their approach to reconceive the global whole: all imagine alternate worlds of a fictional or hypothetical nature that provide possible paradigms for reformulating an idea of "the world."
520 $a However, this struggle to re-conceptualize the world also contained a paradox. Even though many dreamed of discovering an absolute, perhaps divine, system of world-order, the widespread cultural activity of imagining worlds ultimately disclosed the impossibility of that aspiration. While such worlds provided the foundation for a new science and a new global politics, they also exposed these systems as necessary fictions used to build ideological strength and to offer consolation in the face of an uncertain, fragmented world-view. "Worldmaking in Early Modern Europe" explores the development of a distinctly modern concept of "the world" as it emerged through the interstices between literary fiction-making and early modern philosophy, politics, science and religion. In the process, it argues for an intellectual kinship between imaginative making and the discourses of post-Cartesian rationalism.
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